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American Literature 1800-1865

ENGL 389R | University Course

Representative writers, genres, and literary trends of American literature after 1800.

Course Details

Prerequisites

Recommended: Introduction to English Studies, American Literary History, and Writing Literary Criticism

Course Outline

Unit 1: Romanticism and the Shaping of an American Identity
Unit 2: American Romanticism/Transcendentalism
Unit 3: The Flowering of American Fiction and Poetry
Unit 4: Pre-Civil War America and “Romantic Realism”
Final Exam Preparation

Syllabus

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Textbooks

	BYU Store	Vital Source (eBook)	Amazon*	Library
Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1800–1860 (2nd Edition) (Required) by: Andrew Ladd and Karen Meyers and Jerry Philips ISBN: 9781604134865 2010 Chelsea House Publications	New: $131.10			Borrow
The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel (Required) by: Gregg Crane ISBN: 9780521603997 2007 Cambridge University Press	New: $38.99	Purchase from: $38.99		Borrow
The Scarlet Letter (Required) by: Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 9781551116365 Novel		Purchase from: $14.85 Rental from: $12.62	New from $10.00 Used from $2.83	Borrow

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